ANTHRO 139 F15

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

The final exam will consist of multiple-choice questions (Scantron will be provided),
short-answer questions, and most likely a one-page essay. The exam will take place
in our usual classroom (Haines Hall 118) on Monday, December 7th from 8-11am.
Please note that all material covered in lecture and in the readings listed on the revised
syllabus may be tested on the exam, but the emphasis will be on material covered after
the midterm.
*All material on the PowerPoints may be included.
The exam may contain examples we have not discussed that illustrate concepts and
concerns that we have discussed and/or read about. The point here is for you to be able to
apply the material youve studied to unfamiliar situations.
You also need to recall our discussions about positions (race, sex, class, etc.) and biases
we carry into the field, and the various ethical concerns involved in research with other
human beings.
*All our discussions of articles and films may be included (focus on arguments,
themes, and methodologies), again, the emphasis will be on what weve covered after
the midterm.
The film Margaret Mead and Samoa is available on YouTube if you want to view it
again.
*All the Bernard readings may also be included (with an emphasis on chapters read
after the midterm)
*Additional concepts and themes (Part I is the same list as for the midterm, but I have
crossed out topics I will definitely NOT ask about so that you can easily identify what to
skip; Part II lists topics weve read or discussed after the midterm):
PART I
Various epistemologies
Research design
Methods
Triangulation
Reflexivity
The scientific method
Going native
Qualitative/Quantitative
Collaborative ethnography

Multiple truths
Thick description
Inseparability of methods and
Validity/reliability/precision/accuracy
findings
Cause and effect
Studying up/ Studying sideways
Ethnography
Interface ethnography
Participant observation/Fieldwork
Reactivity
PART II
Individual attribute data
Narrative analysis
Cultural data
Performance analysis
Sampling methods
Discourse analysis
Conversation analysis
Coding
Grounded theory
Probing
Theoretical sampling
Reproduction of official accounts
Theoretical saturation
Focus groups
Content analysis
Response effects
Deference effect
Social desirability effect
Third-party-present effect
Expectancy effect
Why people are inaccurate reporters of their own behavior
How do reduce errors in interviews
Polyvocality, if there are multiple opinions/expressions/ the use of multiple voices as a
narrative mode within a text
Colonialist discourse
Wolfs engagement with postmodernist anthropology and feminist anthropology (but
your reading of Wolf should not be limited to that)
Questionnaires
Back translation
Cross-sectional surveys
Longitudinal surveys
Panel studies
Cultural domain analysis methods

Why ethnographers disagree, because of the particular circumstances of fieldwork or

the attributes of the ethnographers
Raw moments
Radical empiricism, the doctrine that the only proper subject matter of philosophy is that
which can be defined in terms of experience, and that relations are a part of
experience, any philosophical worldview is flawed if it stops at the physical level
and fails to explain how meaning, values and intentionality can arise from that
Interpretive drift
Proclivity (Luhrman), a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or
predisposition toward a particular thing.
Interpretive analysis